Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...book, "The First Hundred Thousand," written under the pen-name of Ian Hay, Captain Beith has collected his most interesting and entertaining experiences at Aldershot and "somewhere in France" as typical of the life of a British volunteer...
Fresh from the English trenches in France, Captain Ian Hay Beith has come to America to resume in person his lively and picturesque narrative of the "First Hundred Thousand--still first", as he touchingly puts it at the close of his book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection...
...different countries, where articles of all sizes at prices large and small, will be sold. Mammoth exhibits have been arranged, and concerts, dancing and cabarets will furnish additional amusement. World famous artists will entertain, and war heroes such as Captain Ian Hay Beith, author of "The First Hundred Thousand," and Sergeant Middlemus, who was blinded by a German shot, will tell of their experiences...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, better known under the pen-name Ian Hay as the author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in Sanders Theatre next Monday afternoon, December 11, at 4 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Surgical Dressing Committee, Captain Beith has been sent to this country by the British government to explain Britain's part in the war. He has already lectured on his experiences, both in the training camp at Aldershot and at the front, at both Yale and Princeton...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier and author of "The First Hundred Thousand," who is to lecture in Sanders Theatre on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, will arrive in Boston this evening. Captain Beith will assist Captain Norman Charles Thwaites, V.C., Fourth London Dragoon Guards, in arranging the elaborate military display at the Allied Bazaar...